Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth CenturyNYU Press, 2006 - 422 pages 2008 United States Postal System’s Rita Lloyd Moroney Award |
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... written by British immigrants to North America this study analyzes are illiterates (unless someone literate wrote in ... written by women; another five (7 percent) are collections in which a number of letters were signed at times by ...
... written over the course of at least two years. This extended duration facilitates knowledge of those involved in the exchange and creates a basis for confidence in the integrity of the collections used. Collections with letters written ...
... written as a type of biographical narrative rather than analytical expositions, but they are intended to serve as case-studies that develop the analysis established in Part I. In framing immigrant letter-writing through case studies ...
... writing, though only infrequently in the case of the immigrant letter.19 If we are able to agree on the categories operationalizing it, content analysis is a ... written by the same correspondents, have been lost Traditions of Inquiry | 39.
... Writing in 1929, Stephenson contended that since immigration history already possessed enough particularized ... written with an emotional remoteness that fails to capture the deeply human aspects of some of the sources cited in ...
Table des matières
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31 | |
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3 Writing with a Purpose | 92 |
4 Using Postal Systems | 140 |
5 Establishing Voice Theme and Rhythm | 162 |
6 When Correspondence Wanes | 201 |
7 Thomas Spencer Niblock | 230 |
8 Catherine Grayston Bond | 257 |
9 Mary Ann Wodrow Archbald | 281 |
10 Dr Thomas Steel | 309 |
Abbreviations for Archives and Repositories Consulted | 337 |
Notes | 339 |
Collections of Letters Consulted | 399 |
Index | 403 |